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Responsible for the delivery of psychiatric nursing care/services to members being treated in the behavioral health service departments. Positions assigned to this classification are characterized by providing interventions that: promote and foster health; assess dysfunction; assist patients to regain or improve their coping abilities; maximize patient strengths and prevent further disability. These interventions focus on the psychiatric-mental health patient and include: health promotion and health maintenance; monitoring patients and assisting them with self-care activities; monitoring psycho-biological treatment regimens; providing triage decisions and facilitating patient movement into appropriate services.

Essential Functions:
- Coordinates with pharmacy regarding approved medications.
- Provides information and education to members in a variety of forums.
- Documents Services rendered utilizing standard nursing procedures in member chart.
- Triage phone calls and refer to appropriate staff or community resources.
- Assist Psychiatrists with coordinating internal and external hospitalizations of members.
- Performs basic physical assessments of patients including vital signs and monitoring for side effects of psychiatric active medications and referring information to physicians as appropriate.
- Provides prescribed medications to patients per physicians' orders following appropriate protocol.
- Utilizes electronic medical record for medication refills.
- Reviews lab results and refers to physician within protocols and guidelines.
- Performs other duties as assigned by the Department Administrator and/or Chief of Psychiatry.

This is a Repost of 173901


Basic Qualifications:
- Minimum one (1) year of recent (within the last three (3) years) RN Psychiatric experience.
- Telephone triage experience preferred.
- Graduate from an accredited nursing school.
- BSN preferred.
- Current CA RN License.
- Psychiatric & chemical dependency knowledge.
- Able to triage & evaluate various aspects of the psychiatric population.
- Group leadership skills, excellent verbal & written communication skills.

- Bilingual (English/Spanish) Level II required.

Preferred Qualifications:

- Previous psychiatric nursing experience in an outpatient setting

Notes:

- Must successfully pass or have passed the bilingual test (within the last 12 months), or be active in the QBS program.

- Schedule (days & hours) may vary according to operational needs

Primary Location: California-West Covina

Scheduled Hours (1-40): 40

Shift: Day

Working Days: Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat

Working Hours Start: 10:00 AM

Working Hours End: 7:00 PM

Schedule: Full-time

Job Type: Standard

Employee Status: Regular

Employee Group: NUHW

Job Level: Individual Contributor

Job: Mental Health

Public Department Name: Psychiatry

Travel: No

Job Eligible for Benefits: Yes

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. We are proud to be an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.